Article as featured in The Scotsman and Third Force News.
Lone worker protection specialist, Safe Shores Monitoring, and its sister company, Communicare247, have launched a charity support campaign to celebrate 20 years of business growth.
Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247 have pledged to support six charities that are aligned with their social values as businesses throughout the group’s 20th year of operation.
The six partner charities that have been chosen to benefit from the Charity Support Programme are: Carers Trust, the UK’s largest charity for unpaid carers; Carr Gomm, which delivers high quality support services and campaigns to tackle loneliness and social isolation; Help for Heroes and Poppyscotland, which support serving and veteran armed forces personnel and their families; and SAMH and SANE, leading Scottish and UK charities that support people and families affected by mental illness.
Through the newly launched Charity Support Programme, Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247 will donate funds to the charities each time a customer contracts one of the companies’ services over the next 12 months. Customers will be given the opportunity to select their preferred partner charity or charities. The programme will also enable the customers to raise further funds for the charity partners supported by funding from the companies. Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247 are aspiring to raise £25,000 through the programme.
Tom Morton, CEO of both Communicare247 and Safe Shores Monitoring, said: “For 20 years we have been helping employers and more recently carers through Communicare247 with ensuring the security and safety of people either in the workplace or at home.
“We have chosen these six charities for our 20-year anniversary Charity Support Programme because the work they do chimes with our values of offering support, wellbeing and care to people who need it most.
“These charities are tireless in achieving their aims which include addressing homelessness and employment opportunities for former military service personnel and others; tackling mental health; ending loneliness and social isolation; and providing carer respite.
“We have structured the Charity Support Programme to maximise funds raised for our chosen charities, while also enabling our new customers to support their own fundraising efforts too.”
Mark Bibbey, Poppyscotland’s Chief Executive, said: “We are very grateful to Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247 for launching this exciting and ambitious fundraising project. Their Charity Support Programme will raise money that will help us provide life-changing support to the Armed Forces community living in Scotland in this most significant of years as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that led to the end of the First World War.”
Margaret Edwards, Director of Communications for SANE, said: “We were delighted to be chosen to be part of Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247’s Charity Support Programme and to hear that both the company and its customers will be joining our fight to change mental health for good.”
Lucy Wren, CEO of Carr Gomm, which is spearheading its Stomp Out Loneliness campaign to end social isolation, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen as one of Safe Shores Monitoring and Communicare247’s partners for their celebratory Charity Support Programme. The money raised from this programme will go directly towards funding much-needed projects and activities that tackle loneliness and isolation for people of all ages and stages across Scotland.
“Loneliness has existed as a social concern for many years and has now become widely recognised as a growing problem. Activities and relationships, as well as a sense of belonging and purpose, are all essential to supporting positive health and wellbeing; Carr Gomm fundraises to develop projects that find new ways to address the gaps in society, supporting people to feel part of society and achieve their goals.
“It’s vital that we continue in taking action to reduce the staggering statistic that one in ten of adults in Scotland often feel lonely.”
